English

Alternative forms

• sagan

Noun

Sagan ‎(plural Sagans)

1. (slang, humorous) A unit of measurement equal to at least four billion.

References

• Sagan at dictionary.reference.com (Jargon File)
• William Safire, ON LANGUAGE; Footprints on the Infobahn, New York Times, April 17, 1994
• Carl Sagan, Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium, Random House, 1997

Anagrams

• Angas
• nagas, nāgas

English

Noun

sagan ‎(plural sagans)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Sagan
   • 1984 September 27, Jerry Boyajian, “re: Moriarty's long-awaited reviews”, in net.comics, Usenet:

     Part of it was that I just couldn't deal with a piece of primal matter floating around for sagans of years, eroding away until it became a nice, shiny, sharp-as-William-F.-Buckley's-tongue sword, with the old familiar "S" symbol coincidentally engraved on its hilt.

   • 1989, Edward S. Hudson, Alien Death Fleet, Pageant Books (1989), ISBN 9780517006887, page 5:

     "There must be a sagan of them up there."

   • 1998, Jon Luini & Allen Whitman, "Finding Your Geek", EQ, January 1998, page 132:

     There are sagans of other planets crying out for this knowledge.

   • 2001 October 24, Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster, “Re: Randomly write data to a file”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc, Usenet:

     The Jet and xBase database engines have been pounded on by who knows how many developers and end-users for years, which amounts to sagans and sagans of hours of real-world testing!

Icelandic

Noun

sagan f

1. definite nominative singular of saga

Swedish

Noun

sagan

1. definite singular of saga